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| 313175041 | Why was it Portugal, Spain, France, and Britain that first expanded into the new world? | These powers were simply closer to the new world, and once they were able to understand and master the consistent wind patterns of the Atlantic, it was much easier for them to go to the Americas than it was for any Asian competitors | 0 | |
| 313175042 | Which of the following was a motivation for Europeans to expand into the Americas? | To cut out Muslim intermediaries from trade with Asia, To spread Christianity, To escape religious and ethnic persecution within Europe | 1 | |
| 313175043 | Why did some Native Americans aid the Spanish in their invasion of the New World? | To gain advantage against their own enemies | 2 | |
| 313175044 | What import from Europeans wiped out as many as nine-tenths of the Native American population? | Disease | 3 | |
| 313175045 | The silver mines in Mexico and Peru allowed the Spanish conquerors to buy massive amounts of what highly valuable commodities? | Chinese silk, tea, and porcelain | 4 | |
| 313175046 | Mercantilism | the guiding principle of most early colonial empires, meant accumulating precious metals through exports from the colonies. | 5 | |
| 313175047 | Why was there such a large mestizo (mixed Spanish and Native American) population in South and Central America? | Enormous gender imbalance among early Spanish settlers | 6 | |
| 313175048 | What happened to Native Americans' religious beliefs when confronted with Catholicism? | They blended their old customs easily into Catholic practices. | 7 | |
| 313175049 | Where did the majority of enslaved Africans end up once brought across the Atlantic? | Brazil and the Caribbean | 8 | |
| 313175050 | All of the following differences existed between the British colonies and the Portuguese/Spanish colonies | More racial interbreeding occurred in the Spanish and Portuguese colonies. British colonists were far more numerous than Spanish colonists. The British colonists sought to escape European traditions, while Spanish/Portuguese sought to recreate it in the Americas. | 9 | |
| 313175051 | What is one major reason for the higher literacy rates in British colonies than in Spanish/Portuguese colonies? | Protestantism, which encouraged the reading of the Bible, was the dominant form of Christianity in the British colonies. | 10 | |
| 313175052 | In North America, what percentage of African ancestry qualified a person as "black"? | Any at all | 11 | |
| 313175053 | Russia was a "society organized for continuous war" because | it bordered all the great powers of Asia. | 12 | |
| 313175054 | The expansion of the Chinese and Russian empires into the steppe lands of central Asia led to what result for the nomadic peoples native to this vast area? | The political independence and economic prosperity of nomadic peoples came to an end. | 13 | |
| 313175055 | Akbar's policy toward the Hindus of India is best described as: | religious tolerance and incorporation of Hindu elites | 14 | |
| 313175056 | The Mughal Empire eventually failed to unite Hindus and Muslims because | Emperor Aurangzeb attempted to enforce Islam throughout India. | 15 | |
| 313175057 | What was the "Terror of the Turk"? | Europeans' fear of an Islamic takeover of all Europe | 16 | |
| 313175058 | What aspects of the Ottoman society did many Europeans admire? | Their spirit of religious tolerance | 17 | |
| 313175059 | What was the religious outcome of Ottoman rule in Christian Southeastern (Balkan) Europe | Conversion to Islam of about 20 percent of the population | 18 | |
| 313175060 | "Great Dying" | mass depopulation of the Native Americans | 19 | |
| 313175061 | The Columbian Exchange led to immense population growth in Europe by introducing calorie-rich crops such as | corn and potatoes | 20 | |
| 313175062 | Spanish colonists born in the colonies | creoles | 21 | |
| 313175063 | The Russian Empire replaced what empire that had once dominated large swaths of Asia. | Mongol Empire | 22 | |
| 313175064 | Emperor Akbar's religious tolerance to non-Muslims in India was reversed by emperor | Aurangzeb | 23 | |
| 313175065 | The elite military and government units of the Ottoman Empire were called the | Janissaries | 24 | |
| 313175066 | In 1529 and in 1683 the Ottoman Empire besieged the central European capital of | Vienna | 25 | |
| 313175067 | What was the one major advantage that allowed the small Portuguese fleet to dominate the Indian Ocean militarily? | Their cannons | 26 | |
| 313175068 | What strategic significance did the Philippines hold for Spain? | They were close to China, but not ruled by China | 27 | |
| 313175069 | What was one main difference between the Spanish colonization of the Philippines and the Portuguese strongholds the Indian Ocean Basin? | The Spanish converted Filipinos to Christianity; the Portuguese often blended into the local populations | 28 | |
| 313175070 | What was one main difference between the establishment of the British East India Company in Mughal India versus the establishment of the Dutch East India Company in Indonesia? | The British used treaties with local Mughal rulers; the Dutch violently conquered and killed many Indonesians. | 29 | |
| 313175071 | What was the attitude of Japanese shoguns toward Christian Europeans in Japan in the early seventeenth century? | They violently expelled all but a few Europeans. | 30 | |
| 313175072 | Which of the following statements best describes the relationship of the new European trading networks in the Indian Ocean to other Asian commercial networks? | Europeans became just one small group among a vast number of thriving Asian commercial networks. | 31 | |
| 313175073 | Which of the following was NOT a factor in the emergence of silver as the currency of global trade in the sixteenth century? | The lack of any silver mines in Asia. | 32 | |
| 313175074 | What impact did the discovery of the world's largest silver mine at Potosi have on the native (mostly) Incan population there? | They were forced to work in deadly, hellish conditions | 33 | |
| 313175075 | How did the discovery of the vast silver mines in South America affect Spain's position in Europe? | It allowed Spain to pursue political and military goals far beyond what they could afford previously. | 34 | |
| 313175076 | How did the discovery of silver mines in Japan impact Japanese fortunes? | The ruling shogunate wisely invested wealth from the mines to create a sustainable market-based economy and ecology | 35 | |
| 313175077 | In what way did the Chinese response to the global silver economy differ from the Japanese response? | Economic changes resulted in ecological devastation in China, but not in Japan. | 36 | |
| 313175078 | What was the main way through which Europeans acquired furs in North America? | Trade with Native Americans | 37 | |
| 313175079 | In what way did the fur trade benefit Native Americans? | It protected them against enslavement and genocide, initially | 38 | |
| 313175080 | In what way did the fur trade harm Native Americans? | Because of contact with Europeans, it eventually led to warfare, disease, and alcoholism | 39 | |
| 313175081 | How did African slavery in the New World differ fundamentally from past instances of slavery in world history? | Slavery in the Americas was clearly associated with race and with plantation economies. | 40 | |
| 313175082 | What was the social status of those Africans who were captured by other Africans to be sold to Europeans? | They were the outcasts and foreigners, often prisoners of war, within local villages | 41 | |
| 313175083 | What best describes the long-term impact of the slave trade on West Africa? | Economic stagnation and political disruption | 42 | |
| 313175084 | How did Luther's belief in the Bible as the source of religious truth threaten the power of the church? | It freed individuals to disagree with the Church's interpretation of Christianity. | 43 | |
| 313175085 | Why did certain princes and kings embrace Luther's ideas? | They had long resented the Pope's political power over them. | 44 | |
| 313175086 | . Which of the following was a major difference between Protestants and Catholics in European colonies? | Catholics sought to convert native peoples; Protestants did not. | 45 | |
| 313175087 | Thirty Years War | Protestant rebellion against the Holy Roman Empire ends with peace of westpahlia.1618-48) A series of European wars that were partially a Catholic-Protestant religious conflict. It was primarily a batlte between France and their rivals the Hapsburg's, rulers of the Holy Roman Empire. | 46 | |
| 313175088 | In what way did most Native Americans in the Andes and Mexico respond to the imposition of Christianity on their culture? | The incorporated their older religious beliefs into Christian doctrine and practice | 47 | |
| 313175089 | Which of the following best describes the behavior of the Jesuits in China? | They learned about and adopted much Chinese culture and learning | 48 | |
| 313175090 | How did Europeans commonly react to African slaves' syncretic religions, such as Santeria and Vodou? | They considered these religions to be satanic witchcraft and tried to suppress them. | 49 | |
| 313175091 | How were individual merchants, wandering holy men, or scholars able to spread Islam further throughout Africa, Asia, and even the Americas during the Early Modern Era? | They were not threatening to local rulers, and were often quite useful. | 50 | |
| 313175092 | What best describes the state created by Abd al-Wahhab and Muhammad Ibn Saud in the 1740s? | A state based on a pure and strict interpretation of Islam. | 51 | |
| 313175093 | How was Wang Yangmin's Confucianism MOST similar to Martin Luther's Christianity? | They both saw truth as innately accessible for every human being | 52 | |
| 313175094 | How might the Hindu practice of bhakti have threatened the social order in India? | It set aside caste distinctions | 53 | |
| 313175095 | Why did Sikhism evolve from a peaceful religion into a militant community? | They had to defend themselves against both Mughal and Hindu hostility. | 54 | |
| 313175096 | Why was the legal concept of a "corporation" so important to the development of the European Scientific Revolution? | It allowed universities to have a measure of educational and intellectual freedom from the church and state | 55 | |
| 313175097 | What role did science play in the educational systems of Islamic and Chinese societies? | Marginal. | 56 | |
| 313175098 | What was the radical implication of Newton's law of mutual gravitation? | It implied that the heavens and earth obeyed the same laws | 57 | |
| 313175099 | How does the Enlightenment compare to the Scientific Revolution? | The Enlightenment applied the idea of natural laws to human affairs. | 58 | |
| 313175100 | Which of the following best describes the response of China, Japan, and the Ottoman Empire to the Scientific Revolution? | They adopted some of the more practical aspects, such as map-making and anatomy, but little beyond that | 59 | |
| 313175101 | Which of the following best describes the Enlightenment-era philosophy of Rousseau? | Children should be educated in nature, not in society | 60 | |
| 313175102 | . How did many Enlightenment thinkers, such as Voltaire, think about established religion? | They saw most religions as superstitious and intolerant. | 61 |
